[Kuksool]

After looking at the list of potential candidates running for Governor, the recall election is going to be about which candidate CA voters dislike the least. With a crowded field, there is no guarantee that a Pubbie will be elected to replace Gray Davis.

[TheAngryClam]

I don't think that a Republican winning the recall was ever a foregone conclusion (unlike many here on FR). That's part of the reason I find Bill Simon's line, which ElkGroveDan has been repeating here, that a huge pile of Republican candidates will help the recall, so lacking.

Yes, it will aide the ouster of Gray Davis by getting every little sliver of factionalists to the polls, but that's only one of our two goals. The other, which it actively defeats by splitting the vote (and why I want Simon out so bad), is to get a Republican (a real one, not Riordan or some other RINO like Arnold or Richman) into the office.

Simon's in the way of that, and I want him to get out of the way, but it's looking like he's too self-absorbed and narcissistic to do so.